Her lawyer said she may be willing to talk to the families on her eventual return to New Zealand. "She is just not emotionally up to it at this stage."
Sullivan was working at the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre in April last year when the group she was guiding was hit by a flash flood in Tongariro National Park.
She left the centre last month, and travelled to the US where she took the job at Camp America.
Both her lawyer and the centre's chief executive, Dr Grant Davidson, said she had advised her new employer of the Mangatepopo accident.
"They are aware and they are very supportive of Jodie," McCartney said. "Jodie had worked for them prior to her employment at OPC, so they knew her abilities."
Camp America has hired Sullivan as a co-facilitator, Davidson said, meaning she would not be solely responsible for children's safety.
Sullivan had been an outgoing, vivacious and energetic person before the accident, he added, but now bore emotional scars she would need to get past before he employed her again.
The centre was fined $40,000 and ordered to pay reparations of nearly $500,000 in March, after pleading guilty to charges laid under the Health and Safety in Employment Act.
The Department of Labour said the centre should have known from the heavy rain on the day that the group should never have entered the gorge, even though the water levels were not high when they entered.
In her decision, Judge Anne Kiernan said the decision on whether to go into the gorge that day should have been made by the experienced field manager, not by Sullivan.
"It was the responsibility of the centre - her employer - to ensure her safety."
The families of the seven victims have never held Sullivan personally responsible for the action, and this week the police announced they would not be laying criminal charges.
